By Niki Deutsch
As I write this, the day is rainy and gray. It has been raining for a day and a half, but already I am missing the sunlight. It feels, in the middle of a rainy stretch, as if I’ll never see the sun again! Yet I know all this rain leads to sunshine, lush green grass and fragrant flowering trees – so I don’t think I’ll complain very much.
While going about my day, glancing out the window every now and then, I go back in my mind to those periods of spiritual dryness where I wondered if it was destined that I live in that dry desert forever. That arid place where I begin to stall or settle in, thinking I may as well get used to it – this is just what it is. Forever.
Then His mercy comes like the rain…and once again, I have a renewed hope for whatever it is he is leading me towards.
There is a favorite song of mine by Misty Edwards, My Soul Longs for You. She sings believing He is coming like the rain. She cries out to God, “It’s just a matter of time – You’re going to turn it around!”
It’s just a matter of time before His mercy pours out – even as we wonder: Will I ever see evidence of His mercy again? Will my heart be soft again? Will I sense His love again?
He is so faithful. “Hallelujah, hallelujah – You’ll make all things new…”
Jesus, in your mercy, come like the rain over the dry desert parts of our lives. Oh, how we need it! So let it rain…
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Amen, yes Lord, come like the rain!